Spoon



(No Model.)

I. N. PLOTTS.

SPOON.

N0. 431,914. Patented July 8, 1890.

UN ri ii. I) STA'ri-is PAT ENT ()i l' itillit SPOON" SPECIFICATION forming; part of Letters Patent No. 431,914, dated July 8, 1890,

Applinatimi iilerl Deeelnher 20. i337. Serial No. 258,477. (N0 model.)

lie it; known thal l, lsaMI N. llio'r'is, aeitizen of the i niled States, residing in the city and county oi l lliiitlliliiillfi Wale ol' lennayliania, have invented a iii-W and llSUilll linpri'wemeni in Spoons, whii-h improvement is l'nlly set forth in the lolli'iwing:specification and aceoinpaiiying 1li'fi,\i'i3l"'.

My invention relat s to i Q proveinenls in tea, tahle, densiert, and Hllillllti opoons; and it (UllSlSih in the eonstrne'tingr oi ihe mine with a handle projecting from the howl in such manner that a line drawn From ihe inner end of the handle aerose the bowl in the direetion of the line of the handle divider: the bowl so that; it is substantially lHLlfll'HNl, the line of the length of the howl being: atan angle to the line of the handle.

The figure in the drawing I'(] HCHUH ts a spoon enihodying the Features of my invention.

Reli'orring to the drawing", A represents a table-spoon, whieh may, however, heol' the order of dessert, tea, or other epoon. 'lhehewl is attached to the handle in an oldiqnedireetion; or, in other words, said howl departs from the customary rightline direction of: the handle and extends at an obtuse angle there to. The handle extends outwardly from the bowl in Snch manner that a line paseing from the inner end and in the same direction as an inner extension of the handle would di- 'vide the said how], so that port ions thereof would he on opposite SliltS ol the line, by

which plflvlbltl ll the howl is hailaneed. By this Pl'OVlSlOH the howl may he readily tilled from a plate, enp, &e., and conveyed to the month in a most eonvenieni manner, as it avoids excessive bending ol' the arm and places the point of the howl in the most eonvenient position For reaehiirig the mouth, and when thespoon upturned the howl lr-itliitliill in the direetien of the long axis thereof, the Clearing or disoharging' ol' the spoon thus heingelleeted in a eiiinvenient manner and eon paratively ni'iist'iless, owing to the smallest part of the spoon being presented to and on tering the month.

1 am aware that it is not new to (:onsirnet a spoonwith a handle at an angle in ihehowl, and therefore disclaim the same.

Having thus doserihed my lliVOllllOlL what I (claim as new, and desiretoseenre hy Leliers Patent, is-

As a new article of manufacture, a tin-n ta hie, or other spoon having the line of the length of its handle at an angle to the line of the length of the bowl and the handle so seenred to the side of the bowl that aline drawn in the direction of the handle l'roni theinner end thereof so divides the howl as tohalanee the samcgsaid parts heing eonihined snhstantially as described.

In N. ILONS. Witnesses:

JoHN A Wmonnsnnm, JAMES F Knm Y. 

